Homeless Education
Provides information and resources for homeless children and youth and their right to enroll, attend, participate fully, and succeed in school
.Definition of Homeless
The McKinney-Vento Act defines homeless children and youth as individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. This definition also includes:
- Children and youth who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason
- Children and youth who may be living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, shelters
- Children and youth who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodation for human beings
- Children and youth who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings, or
- Migratory children who qualify as homeless because they are children who are living in similar circumstances listed above
Questions: James Barnes- [email protected] (650) 525-6364 or Jackie Sullivan- [email protected] (650) 638-8447
Resources for Homeless Children and Youth
Resources related to homeless students' rights to enroll and participate fully in school.